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Norm Dunlap at Ames High School
photo circa 1961

Standing behind several engines and an automatic transmission, Norman Dunlap shows a carburetor to Ames High School educators.  Chrysler's Plymouth division sponsored the annual Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest held in cooperation with the nation's high schools.  This photo is believed to be taken shortly after the construction of the new High School located at the west end of 20th Street.  Pictured from left: Leonard Bengtson, auto mechanics instructor; Norm Dunlap; Herb Adams, Ames High School principal; and Owen Shadle, supervisor of Vocational Education.
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Norm Dunlap was the owner of Motor Sales and Service, Inc., the Ames dealership for Plymouth cars as well as Dodge trucks and cars.  The Packard convertible in the 1949 Tribune photo above shows that Motor Sales and Service also maintained a used car lot from the location on the southeast corner of the Lincoln Way and Kellogg intersection. Learn more about Motor Sales and Service.

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Norm Dunlap appears in this 1956 photo of Chrysler Corporation dealers attending the Used Car Merchandising and Management Conference in Highland Park, Michigan.  Joe Alfred, Norm Dunlap's sales manager, also attended this conference.  He is pictured 4th from right.

Motor Sales and Service advertisement published
in the Ames Daily Tribune on April 12, 1949

Motor Sales and Service stationery letterhead

Norm Dunlap graduated from Ames High School in 1935 and earned his bachelor's degree in Industrial Economics at Iowa State College in 1941.  He served in the United States Army Air Corps, and worked for Coca-Cola Company.  After operating Motor Sales and Service for 25 years, Norm worked for R.G. Dickinson and Company.

In 1972 Norm Dunlap was elected to a term in the Iowa House of Representatives.

When I was in the automobile business I was president of the Iowa Automobile Dealers Association for one year, also president of Ames Kiwanis Club in 1956.  Now I'm 89, on oxygen, hearing aids, can't walk without a walker.  Gave my Chrysler to the guy who changed my tires without charge.  He needed one.  No longer have a drivers license and really miss not being allowed to drive anymore.

Jackie and I loved our living in Ames [and] our homes in Colonial Village and North Grand.  I was a native of Ames, and Jackie was from Wyoming, via ISU.  We're celebrating our 65th wedding anniversary this month on the 22nd.

Norm Dunlap, December, 2006
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